There is no way for anyone on the planet to escape it, even in Antarctica.
Seven million of them die each year from said exposure, according to the Global Burden of Disease Study published in Lancet: A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
(Lancet 2012, 380, 2224–60: For air pollution mortality figures see Table 3, page 2238 and the text on page 2240.)
The poorly educated anti-nuke brats in the anti-nuke industry, who have sustained the annual increases in fossil fuel waste dumping for more than half a century, would like you to believe that the 32,760 exposures reported are all death warrants.
Let's make the make like a dumb anti-nuke, lie and misrepresent, and assume that everyone exposed to radiation as reported here, all 32,780 workers die from radiation exposure, even if almost 5 years later, few, if any have died. Let's pretend that we have never read a single biology book in our pathetic lives.
At 7 million deaths per year, every year, around 19,000 people die every damn day from air pollution. It follows that if we believed for a second that all 32,760 people died from radiation exposure, that it would match the death toll from 1 day, 17 hours and one minute from air pollution.
However it is worth noting that 32,760 will not die from radiation exposure, but every day, 17 hours and one minute, that many people do die from air pollution.
This is why, the climate scientist Jim Hansen was able to show, in one of the most widely read papers in the environmental scientific literature in 2013, that even included the predicted DALY's of Fukushima and Chernobyl combined, nuclear energy has saved 1.8 million lives: Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895.
Of course, were it not for the ignoramuses who try to extract nuclear energy from its alternatives don't give ass about how many millions of people die because nuclear energy has been prevented from saving as many lives as it might have saved were it not for fear and ignorance.
Most anti-nukes have the moral and intellectual death of turnips, which is not to malign turnips. Turnips after all, are food, and presumably, unlike anti-nukes, they help keep people alive and healthy, exactly the opposite of what anti-nukes do.
Enjoy the week.
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